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Canal+ Group Appeals To France’s Council Of State Over Controversial Channel C8’s Loss Of TNT Frequency
The channel had racked up close to $8.2 M (€7.6M) in Arcom fines on various counts of lack of honesty and political plurality in recent years.
Vivendi’s Canal+ Group is fighting back against a decision over the summer by France ‘s Arcom audiovisual and digital communication authority to strip its controversial C8 channel of its TNT frequency. On announcing the TNT frequency rewards in July, Arcom said the decision had been taken in “the interest of each project for the public with regard to the priority imperative of pluralism of socio-cultural currents of expression”. “C8’s appeal aims to guarantee effective judicial control and allow the channel to assert its rights today before an irremediable situation arises with the granting of new TNT authorizations which should take place at the end of the year.
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